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Technology Updates
On 1/12/14, 12:41 PM, KC wrote:
On 1/12/2014 12:08 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:35:28 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:
No offense, but to me that's like standing outside in a nor'easter
getting soaked and checking your iPhone for the weather.
It says, "Rain". :-)
It may just be a Florida thing but my wife gets local, interactive
radar on her phone. Our weather tends to be very localized and
generally fast moving so the radar is handy, if you were not looking
up.
Once it is on top of you, it is handy to look at the last hour to see
where it came from and where it is going. If you were watching, you
already know most of the time.
Coordinating what you see looking at the clouds and what the radar
says can give you a great insight into how the weather works.
I again will mention the "weatherbug" app we use. It has a awesome live
strike feature that track the strikes with a ringed bullseye over your
location if any strikes are within 15km... Then it tracks strikes and
tells you when you have gone 30 minutes, with no strikes for 15km... and
you are considered green again.... Not a monitoring program, manual
checks, but I still like it to see where strikes are and how far from
where I am going... Like I said, we work in rain, not lightning...
You're describing the "spark" feature in weatherbug. I like weatherbug
the best of all the weather apps I've tried.
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